FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

Nicanor Reyes St. Sampaloc, Manila

S.Y 2018-2019
INSTITUTE OF NURSING
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING - LECTURE

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING (CHN) → The responsibility of the nursing society is to

guide individuals and families in choosing
● Focuses on the care of population groups
possibilities in changing the health process which is
and community as clients utilizing concepts
accomplished by intersubjective participation with
and principles in community health
the people (George in Maglaya, 2009).
development.
● Describes problems, trends, and issues in
the Philippines and global health care
FRAMEWORK FOR CHN
systems affecting community health nursing.
→ MACRO FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS:
MAIN GOAL OF CHN
1. Healthcare Delivery System
● Promotion of health
● CHN Subsystem
● Prevention of illness
2. Client
RLE GUIDE ● Individual
● Family
1. Provide opportunity to practice CHN bag
● Population group
technique.
● Community
2. Provide for actual care of individual, family,
3. Health
population group and community as which
● Goal of healthcare delivery system
requires competencies with emphasis on
4. Economic
health promotion and disease prevention.
● Socio-cultural
OVERVIEW OF CHN (MAGLAYA, 2009) ● Political
● Environmental factors
⮚ 2 MAJOR FIELDS
o Hospital Nursing → Community health nursing includes different
o Community Health Nursing (more levels of clientele with the population as a whole as
broader) the focus. (Individual, Family, Population groups,
▪ Public Health Nursing Community)
▪ Occupational Health Nursing
→ The nurse and client collaborate as equals and
▪ School Nursing
have greater control in decision making related to
DEFINITION OF CHN BY MAGLAYA (2009) health.

⮚ “Synthesis of nursing knowledge and → The nurse has greater awareness of the client’s
practice and the science and practice of situation and factors related to health.
public health, implemented via a systematic
view of the nursing process and other
processes to promote health and prevent
illness in the population group.
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⮚ Totality of its philosophy and principles
process and standards.
⮚ Practiced within specific economic, political,
socio-cultural, and environmental context.
⮚ The essence of nursing care practice is the
same in different setting.
Created by: Lemuel Glenn Bautista (BSN 211)